Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823282142-009
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823282142-005
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823282142-007
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823282142-001
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Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823282128.003.0011
M. Allewaert
This chapter explores the association between Atlantic fetishes and American spiritualisms. This association emerges glancingly in Marx’s Capital and more substantively in the writing of blacks in the diaspora, particularly Martin Delany’s magazine writings in the late 1850s. Via analyses of Atlantic fetishisms as well as their migration into Delany’s spiritualized electrical theories and his quasi-fictional work Blake, the chapter traces the Atlantic origins of what it calls a relational materialism. This relational materialism emerges from the conflux of cultures at the frontiers of merchant capitalism. For this reason, it isn’t wholly subsumed within a capitalistic conception of value. Moreover, it tends toward pluralistic logics by which antagonisms and alliances emerge through the play of circumstances instead of being absolute or determined in advance.
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This essay argues that a proliferation of utopias focusing on a return to nature beginning around 1870—represented here by William Morris’ s News from Nowhere (1890) and Samuel Butler’ s Erewhon (1872)—are significant less because they voiced opposition to ongoing processes of industrialization and colonialism than for their capacity to explore and often undermine a dualism of nature and society. Reading Morris and Butler together counters a usual interpretation of Morris’ s utopia as “pastoral”: like Erewhon, which Morris admired, News from Nowhere is largely skeptical of the idea of “pure” or “nonhuman” nature. More generally, this essay proposes that utopianism is significant for past and present ecological thought not because of the content of its wish, but as a formal structure capable of investigating interactions between human and nonhuman systems at multiple scales.
{"title":"How We Might Live","authors":"Benjamin Morgan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv7n0bsf.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv7n0bsf.10","url":null,"abstract":"This essay argues that a proliferation of utopias focusing on a return to nature beginning around 1870—represented here by William Morris’ s News from Nowhere (1890) and Samuel Butler’ s Erewhon (1872)—are significant less because they voiced opposition to ongoing processes of industrialization and colonialism than for their capacity to explore and often undermine a dualism of nature and society. Reading Morris and Butler together counters a usual interpretation of Morris’ s utopia as “pastoral”: like Erewhon, which Morris admired, News from Nowhere is largely skeptical of the idea of “pure” or “nonhuman” nature. More generally, this essay proposes that utopianism is significant for past and present ecological thought not because of the content of its wish, but as a formal structure capable of investigating interactions between human and nonhuman systems at multiple scales.","PeriodicalId":213745,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Form","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132238196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823282128.003.0012
Teresa Shewry
This chapter argues that formal techniques associated with satirical humor, including irony, exaggeration, and sarcasm, allow for a disruptive engagement that can orient us into violence, contingency, and potential in relationships between humans, other elements, and other beings. I begin with a reading of Erewhon (1872), where Samuel Butler deploys satire to position settler-capitalist approaches to humans and elements such as water as both unacceptable and avoidable. Moving from Erewhon to a reading of New Zealand poet David Eggleton’ s “Driverless Ute” (2010), I consider the difficulty of facing satire’s fiery structural critiques and imaginaries of potential in this time of climate change, attachment to energy-intensive modern forms of life, and of futures involving the inevitable continuation of ecological upheaval.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823282128.003.0005
E. Miller
This essay examines the temporal structure of George Eliot’s novel The Mill on the Floss (1860) from the perspective of energy and ecology, arguing that Eliot’s well-established interest in epochal shift extends to a searching and prescient inquiry into the temporality of energy and energy regime transition. The novel is set at a water-powered mill in the historical moment that saw an unprecedented energy transition in British industry from water power to coal-fired steam power—the moment that saw the birth of what Andreas Malm calls “the fossil economy”—and it distinguishes between the variant temporalities of these two energy regimes. The essay connects The Mill on the Floss’s dual temporality to our present moment of ecological crisis and its demand that we, as critics, shift not so much from an eco-historicism to an eco-presentism, but toward a temporally doubled methodology that inhabits the present and the past dialectically.
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